Jens Krebs

Hi,
just wanted to let you guys know how incredibly impressed I am with how Publisher is developing -- I am really happy with you adding some extra features and having a really long beta cycle rather than pushing out a software that cannot compete with others. Love the reworked master pages, the search--replace enhancements (RegEx, RegEx, RegEx!) and the new pinned objects!
It's about time that Adobe gets some competition in the pro market (there's lot's of semi-pro applications out there with tons of templates and flashy features, but nothing except Quark Xpress that can actually do what InDesign does).
Thanks for your hard work!

Jens, I noticed occasionally  3 unexpected reasons for enormous PDF file size:
1. Document color set to 16 bit –> resulted in uncompressed images
2. Font issues –> resulted in doubled text frames in PDF: in the foreground as text in the background copy as curved.
3. .afpubs not created in AfPub but from imported / opened PDFs.
Worth to look at possibly.
If you like, upload a test .afpub with pieces of you affected .afpub. I'd like to look at it. Also a few pages of the huge PDF would be interesting to look at.

I imported it to Publisher and exported a pdf with Web preset.
The result is 900 kb.

Hi, did you try this settings (attachment) making 72 dpi? Makes a quarter of normal settings with 1.7. (pics only: 20 MB; 1.7: 100 MB; 300 dpi, 1.7: 300 MB and more in bilinear). Reg., lars

Hi,
just wanted to let you guys know how incredibly impressed I am with how Publisher is developing -- I am really happy with you adding some extra features and having a really long beta cycle rather than pushing out a software that cannot compete with others. Love the reworked master pages, the search--replace enhancements (RegEx, RegEx, RegEx!) and the new pinned objects!
It's about time that Adobe gets some competition in the pro market (there's lot's of semi-pro applications out there with tons of templates and flashy features, but nothing except Quark Xpress that can actually do what InDesign does).
Thanks for your hard work!

Title says it all ... I forget to switch from "all spreads" to "all pages" EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. and have to create every PDF twice.
Would be great, if this setting could be set to a standard and being saved within the app (not per document).

I had the same issue with PagePlus so I would imagine it's the PDF library Serif use.
There are online PDF compressing tools but I purchased NX Powerlite Desktop which appears to reduce files to roughly 20% which works for web downloads and in many cases works for sending to printer with acceptable reduction in quality but YMMV of course.

http://www.miguelboto.com/affinity/

Do the opposite of this pinned thread

Status: Beta
Purpose: Improvements, Fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Publisher
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download: Download
Auto-update: Not Applicable
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Hi,
We are pleased to announce that the first customer beta of Affinity Publisher (1.7.2.420) is now available as a download from the link above. Build 420 has replaced Build 419 which has been withdrawn.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app please note that the beta will install as a separate app alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
The beta is an incremental update to the 1.7.1 store version. We recommend that you use this beta in preference to your store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
If you have any problems using this version please make a new topic in this forum and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Please feel free to leave general suggestions and comments in the Discussion Forum.
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StudioLink
StudioLink in this Beta requires Beta versions of Designer and Photo to function. We are hoping a Designer Beta will become available for macOS soon.
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Fixes and Improvements
Import / Export
DocX import using File > Place was ignoring styles if no frame previously selected Other DocX import fixes for specific files PDF Import fixes for specific files PDF Export - Date format in Info now locale dependent Bleed control moved to 'More' options or removed for export formats where it is less relevant (Win) WMF import fix for specific file Resources
Linked resources were always updating when a document was re-opened Fix for 'Locate missing resources' on file open failing Replace image was always creating a linked resource Resource Manager was showing incorrect image size for some stock images Text
Fixed copy / paste from MSWord not always selecting RTF format Fixed issues with drag / drop and Master Page text Fixes for pinning / unpinning objects within Master Page text Fixes for Pinned objects and Path Text Text wrapping performance improvements Text wrapping around other Text Frames now honours z-order Text wrapping fixed for thin lines Apostrophes causing spelling errors / auto-correct issues Fixed issue preserving fields, index marks etc when correcting spelling Text Style Editor fixes Fix for some fonts not showing underline / strikeout List of used font families for current document does not refresh automatically (Win) Text Styles Panel - hyphenation setting is not reflected correctly (Win) Font handling improvements, new fonts not recognised if many fonts installed, instability when installing a missing font Printing
Fix for Empty Picture Frames being erroneously output to Print (Mac) Typing '0' in Pages under Range and Scale in Print dialog causes crash (Mac) Tiled and N-Up options in Print dialog can't be directly edited (Mac) Fix printing CMYK documents on older macOS StudioLink / Interop
Implemented 'Edit in Publisher' for Designer and Photo (Win) Photo - Creating a mask from selection now accounts for bleed settings Misc
Find and Replace with Paragraph style was only applying style to found text rather than whole paragraph Fix for ArtText not showing as selected if no fill is applied (Mac) Page outlines not always visible with white pasteboard (Mac) Fixed crash starting app from folders containing '/' (Win) Pantone categories are now alphabetically sorted. (Win) Asset names are no longer cut off in list view (Win) Object styles are no longer missing labels when using Grid View Help updates Translation updates To be notified about all future macOS beta updates, please follow this notification thread
To be notified when this Publisher update comes out of beta and is fully released to all Publisher customers, please follow this thread

The released Designer never had hyphenation. I don't think Designer beta did either, but if it did, it was an accident. Designer has gained some new text features from Publisher (eg, lists), and hasn't lost any.

Thanks,

This is so true. 

Are you seriously thinking about spending or not spending $40 for a pro level dtp software because you THINk there MIGHT be a paid update next year or not?
Either you like Publisher and want to spend the money, or you want to wait until it has a specific feature that you are currently missing and wait until then.
Don't overthink what could be and that you could be disappointed about something that might or might not happen next year and could or not could cost you 40 bucks that you don't need to spend if you don't need or want the new features or not that might or might not get programmed ... this kind of doubt and overthinking just makes you unhappy.

I am a native speaker, and I too had the same misunderstanding. I thought it might even have some kind of conditional formatting (that would be great!).
I am happy to just learn the terminology of a given application as long as it is fairly reasonable. "Decorations" is perhaps not the best, but it does get my curiosity enough to see what it's about, and then once I do, I know what I can expect of it and how to find it again later.
If I were naming it, I would have called it "Borders and Shading," because that is precisely what it is. On the other hand, maybe Serif has additional features planned for the section, where a more broad term like "Decorations" will eventually make sense. Or maybe they just named it poorly the first time and now they will have to add new features to it as though to say, "See, we named it right after all." I'm okay with that. 

Placing a PDF as "passthrough" is so normal everyday thing that I thought it certainly is in every PDF code library. Turns out, it is not.

Absolutely!

There are two points here:
Firstly, I'm seeing errors in placed PDFs even when I have all the necessary fonts installed. 
Secondly, PDFs can be placed correctly in InDesign, Illustrator, XPress, Apple Pages, MS Word, etc etc, even if the correct fonts are not installed on your system.
 
Affinity's ability to turn PDFs into editable content is welcome, but the ability to place a PDF on a page as an 'image', accurately,  is paramount to a DTP app. 

Paragraph decorations can include filled boxes as well as rules. I suppose we could have called it "Rules and Boxes".

I'm kind of ok with it.  It looks like it's being used consistently throughout the UI.   Picking up a new application usually entails learning how the developers named stuff.

I prefer one-off payments -- simply because when a subscription ends, I cannot use the software at all and cannot open or edit my own files, without subscribing again.
Corel had a decent solution anwhilenago, where subscribers got to keep the most recent version perpetually (but no upgrades and support any more), when thensubscription had lasted at leastntwo years -- I'd be fine with that.
As things are, I'm happy to pay every couple of years for a new version (because - contrary to Adobe - I trust Serif putting some nice new features on each big upgrade).
Currently Serif is making money by sellong their apps and, through the constant updates and their coverage, expanding their user base. Also, with rougly one new app per year, there's a certain cash flow that holds until version 2.0 where the cycle starts over. This is, by the way, how software was developed until a couple of years ago, with big paid upgrades every two or three years and free smaller updates inbetween -- forces developers to actiäually deliver good updates / upgrades and to manage money a bit diffrently, but it's a better model for everyone in my opinion. 

Yes, yes, yes!
Maybe just diffrent colours? I have just starting real life work with Publisher and already lost count on how often I accidentally applied (no paragraph style) instead of (no character style).

Please, add a visual separation between paragraph and character styles on the studio panel. Maybe a separation line, a blank bar, a blank space or a segmented scroll/window. The ¶ and a symbols are very subtle for a quick look at the panel. I think is easy to implement and is a silly but useful aid to identify styles.
When you have a long list of styles is hard to detect where one end and another star while scrolling. Add this to the "Daniel asking silly things" bucket. 
 

Hey Jens,
Yeah...acrobat is crap! I'm on Windows so the preview doesn't apply Appreciate the help.

It's in the TEXT menu, there's a submenu called "Spelling". Turn off "Check spelling while typing" — made me slightly mad as well.